11 Things You Learn Rewatching A View To A Kill

7. Christoper Walken Is Totally Wasted

A View To A Kill Max Zorin Christopher Walken
MGM

Christopher Walken frequently gets credit for being one of the few bright spots of A View to a Kill, and while he's certainly a dream casting pick for a Bond villain on paper, he really does disappointingly little for most of the movie.

Walken's Max Zorin spends huge chunks of the film skulking off in the shadows or being observed by Bond from afar, pulls from the Generic Bond Villain playbook countless times - even carrying out a Blofeld-inspired assassination of a lackey - and has a mildly intriguing back story (he was a Nazi experiment) that doesn't really pay off at all.

Walken's clearly having fun, but he deserved much, much better material than this.

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